Posts Tagged ‘Marabar Caves’

  • Black Narcissus (1947) and the colors of chaos, with a touch of E. M. Forster
    Black Narcissus (1947) No one really knows what exactly happened to Adela Quested inside the Marabar Caves, in E. M. Forster’s novel A Passage to India (1924)—except that she came out of the caves disheveled and nutty, in an accusatory mood, and enveloped in a horrible confusion that was at the heart of this Forsterian narrative. The enigma of the Marabar Caves—and...
    by Nivedita Ramakrishnan at August 13th, 2009 at 06:08 pm